Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an American actress of stage film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award. She won an Academy Award for Best SupportingActress in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show. She is best known for playing the nosy, self-centered and manipulative landlady Phyllis Lindstrom on the 1970s TV series Mary Tyler Moore, and later on the spin-off series, Phyllis. She also appeared in three Mel Brooks films, including Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety. In recent years, she became very popular for her recurring role as Lois’s ruthless mother Ida, on Malcolm in the Middle. She currently stars in the new hit comedy Raising Hope (FOX), where she plays the wacky grandmother “Maw Maw” to the delight of audiences. Cloris has been nominated recently for her role in Raising Hope….I loved Cloris in the Mary Tyler Moore Show…..One of my all time fav sows…..When I was a kid….

We had the total delight of photographing her recently in our studio and can I say that it was such an amazing experience to photograph such an amazing professional actress and show girl…Thank you Cloris for putting up with us…..

What do you say about a beautiful Bride and a very handsome Groom, great Bridesmaids and Groomsmen, fabulous family…
You say what a dream come true for a wedding photographer….!!

That is what happened this weekend where the weather was amazing a little overcast but of course we look at differently than most people…for the pics it was perfect…..

This Bridesmaid shot is one of my favs from the wedding….
They actually set up this shot so perfectly for me!!

Special thanks to Alicia of About Details Details
www.aboutdetailsdetails.com

The Florists
www.bloomboxdesigns.com

The Amazing Venue: Terranea Resort
www.terranea.com

My favorite DJ Ever: Scott Topper….!!!!
scotttopperproductions.com

Recently the 2011 summer edition of NIKON WORLD arrived at our CHERIEFOTO STUDIO door  AND TO OUR SURPRISE THERE ON THE COVER WAS ONE OF OUR IMAGES… IT’s one of our favorite images shot  downtown Los Angeles’ Union Station  with the NIKON D700 and the new  NIKON 24-120 Zoom Lens….this shot was also one of many images we made for the brochure for the then New Nikon D700,  which we shot and helped produce for Nikon before the D700 was first released….

Way back when I got my first 35 mm camera, it was A Nikon F film camera,  one of my dreams was to get an image on the pages of Nikon World…The quarterly publication produced by Nikon USA and available by subscription.

Well in the current issue of Nikon World magazine,  Cherie and I have 10 images…we are so excited…

NIKON WORLD was one of many photographic  publications that we sent our images to across the USA and Canada. and we currently  also have an ad Advertorial  with Nikon USA which is in the new issue of RANGEFINDER magazine.

Everyday we are so excited to do what we do at Cheriefoto because we are relentless in our pursuit of making compelling and award
winning images… so we are always coming up with new ideas and finding new ways to execute them, so we rent gear
that we don’t have, to try out to help keep us tuned at the top of our game.

We know that marketing may be the most important part of our business but Cherie and I are big on technique so we experiment a lot with different lights and lenses to add to our basic kit which consist of Nikon D3, D700 and D7000 bodies and a stack of Nikon speed lights….On these bodies we can fit just about every Nikon lens ever made, we have the basic Nikon zooms but lately we have been shooting with all the new fast prime lenses that Nikon has been releasing : 24mm f1.4,  35mm f1.4, 50mm f1.4, 85mm 1.4,  even though we have several zooms that cover that range.

These fast lenses along with the Nikon D3, D3S and D700 can shoot in extreme low light at ISO 6400 and get exceptional results with very little noise with the images we capture….  and I find myself shooting at ISO 1600 regularly, like the way we used to shoot Tri-X film, except with much better control over the exposure.

These tools are helping us push the boundaries of photography and helps us to create images that were never before possible….thank you Nikon!

So we have been busy for the past 2 months on so many projects it is really hard to keep up…A lot of boudoir (things we cannot post…hahah) and so many different kinds of projects….it is really a fabulous trip……From celebrities to private girls school graduation…to speaking for lots of photographers, travel…and on and on…

Here are a few images….of a shoot we did recently for a company called Zen Arts…a fabulous performance company that travels worldwide to perform all their many talented performers from belly dancers to burlesque to fire dancers and on and on….Here we find the amazing Tali….Burlesque queen…..This particular shoot was really a dream come true for any photographer…!!!

A small taste…more to come…..get ready….!!

and more shoots…weddings, celebs and ok…boudoir too…..!!